Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 49
“These notable warriors are never with us when the call is made,” said the grim stranger.
Who acts: notable warriors, grim stranger · What happens: not be, make, say · To what, where: call · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (notable warriors, grim stranger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 2 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 warriors | det |
| 3 | notable | notable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 warriors | amod |
| 4 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 us | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 us | cop |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 us | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 us | case |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 made | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 call | det |
| 11 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 made | aux:pass |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 us | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 made | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 made | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 stranger | det |
| 18 | grim | grim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 stranger | amod |
| 19 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | this notable warriors | with us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make in a quote | present · passive | the call | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the grim stranger | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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